Graphic sketches from old and authentic works, illustrating the costume, habits, and character, of the aborigines of America : together with rare and curious fragments relating to the discovery and settlement of the country (1841)
Author: White, John, fl. 1585-1593. Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subject: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : J. and H.G. Langley
Year: 1841
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: Google
Book from the collections of: unknown library
Collection: americana
Notes: Part title and author's name from half-title p. (p. [5]), which precedes the introduction.
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Plates accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress
The plates are figures in outline from de Bry's engravings, reduced
Half-title (p. [5]): Graphic sketches. Part I, The natives of Virginia, by John Wyth. 1585-1588
Added t.p. (leaf following p. 15): Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia, in charge of the honourable gentleman, Sir Walter Raleigh, knight and steward of the stannaries in Cornwall and Exeter, by licence and authority granted in the year 1585, for the government of the new provinces, by the Most Serene Queen of England Elizabeth, the whole carefully executed and drawn to the life, by John Wyth, sent forth to that province in the years 1585 to 1588, afterwards engraved on copper, and first published by Theofore De Bry, 1590
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| Scanner: | google |
| Mediatype: | texts |
| Identifier-access: | http://www.archive.org/details/graphicsketches00whitgoog |
| Oclc-id: | 5301734 |
| Identifier: | graphicsketches00whitgoog |
| Copyright-region: | US |
| Identifier-ark: | ark:/13960/t3xs5vh97 |
| Imagecount: | 125 |
| Source: | http://books.google.com/books?id=9uUNAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 |
| Lccn: | 01016532 |